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Immediate ban on boiling crabs and lobsters alive is called for after disturbing study (www.earth.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/vegan@slrpnk.net
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Recent studies hint that crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans experience pain and discomfort in ways we hadn't fully understood before.

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[–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I can't speak for the UK but the restaurants I've worked in killed the lobster with a knife before boiling. The more compassionate reason was to kill them quickly before boiling, the other was that boiling them alive led to a worse tasting lobster.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    From what I've read about lobsters (not sure about crabs) is they have a decentralized nervous system, not a singular brain like mammals.

    So how do you humanely and quickly kill a lobster? If you are using a knife it would basically probably have to bleed out, which would not be quick, since you can't just stab it's brain or cut its head off like we do to cows, chickens and pigs.

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